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John Mulaney has a particular friendship with girlfriend Olivia Munn’s mom, Kim Munn.
“Me and Olivia’s mother hang around all day and all night time,” the comic, 41, quipped throughout the Thursday, October 12, episode of The Late Present With Stephen Colbert. “Once we first had [our] child, she got here to stick with us for some time, together with Olivia’s stepdad and it was wonderful [that] we grew to become, like, on the spot mates.”
Mulaney and Kim, 68, quickly began a nightly custom of watching “one to 2 Korean interval items” on TV. (Kim hails from Vietnam, however in accordance with Mulaney, has an affinity for Korean overseas language movies.) The pair ultimately stumbled upon Park Chan-wook’s 2016 movie The Handmaiden — and had been caught off-guard by a few of its racy content material.
“I’m sitting with the great Miss Kim, we’re on the sofa collectively, and we discover this Korean movie referred to as The Handmaiden,” he recalled to host Stephen Colbert. “Set within the early twentieth century, it’s about this guide collector and this saved girl. We’re watching the movie [and] It’s proper up our alley: Korea, old school, excellent. It turns into, Stephen, probably the most graphic, sexual, erotic [movie]. I used to be actually like, ‘That is what folks imply by erotic.’”
Whereas Mulaney joked that he “can’t say” an excessive amount of concerning the onscreen lesbian relationship due to CBS’ broadcast requirements, he admitted it was notably awkward to observe along with his associate’s mom.
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“I look over [and] me and Miss Kim are below the identical blanket, I understand,” Mulaney added. “And Olivia’s mother seems to be over at me and goes, ‘I believe they [are] slightly bit lesbian. What do you assume?’”
Issues received extra uncomfortable when Mulaney and Kim reached the movie’s “off-the-charts” oral intercourse scene.
“It’s a lot that it’s important to have a look at one another,” he mentioned. “So I simply look over at her and she or he’s watching me and she or he goes, ‘Hormone[s], everyone received ’em. What do you assume?’”
Us Weekly confirmed Mulaney’s relationship with Olivia, now 43, in Could 2021 following his cut up from ex-wife Anna Marie Tendler. They welcomed their first child, son Malcolm, six months later.
Olivia, for her half, doesn’t get pleasure from watching Korean motion pictures with Mulaney and her mother. Actually, Mulaney informed Colbert, 59, on Thursday that Olivia opted out after discovering his complete checklist of “Films to Watch With Miss Kim.”
“She [said], ‘That is extra effort than you set into any of our date nights,’” Mulaney joked.